Robert McLaughlin Bible Ministries
Anger turned a genius into an idiot.
Friday, November 7, 2003
Accusative singular direct object – megan thumon – qumoVn mevgan – an idiom, having vehement anger =
“and he foams with fury.”
Thumos – thuo – a violent movement of air, water, ground or man, it means to boil over, boiling or foaming with anger = foaming with rage.
Anger – “orge” – has to do with a mental attitude anger, or an inner disposition of anger; an unhappy or “angry” disposition.
MAR 3:5 – TLJC was in a room filled with legalists, and He was –
“looking around at them with anger, grieved at their hardness of heart.”
In the negative sinful way this word means to be mentally angry and reveal it by your disposition, qualities and traits.
Thumon = a more aggressive anger, it has an emotional connotation of being moved and controlled by the emotional sin of anger.
Thumon = to be furious, infuriated, irate, wrathful, fierce, savage, turbulent, unrestrained and violent.
1. A mental attitude sin.
2. An anthropopathism related to divine judgment.
3. Legitimate anger against the “lie.”
As a mental attitude sin, anger expresses antagonism, hatred, bitterness, resentment, irrationality.
It can be mental or emotional or both.
If your right lobe is dominating and you become angry you can react in mental anger (orge).
If your reaction is from emotion, then it is emotional anger (Thumos).
Anger is related to stupidity –
ECC 7:9 “Do not be hasty to be angry in your right lobe; for anger resides in the bosom of fools.”
Anger even destroys a nation –
AMO 1:11 So decrees the Lord, “For three sins of Edom, even for four, I will not revoke its punishment. Because he pursued his brother with a sword, stifling all compassion, because his anger raged continually and he maintained his anger forever.”
Anger is associated with grieving the Holy Spirit –
EPH 4:30-31 “Stop grieving the Holy Spirit, the God by Whom you have been sealed to the day of redemption, let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamor, and slander be removed from you, together with all evil.”
Anger is a violation of the royal family honor code and also hinders effective prayer –
1TI 2:8 “Therefore, I desire that men in every place pray, lifting up holy hands without anger and without dissension.”
Anger is the source of chain sinning –
HEB 12:15 See to it that no one comes short of the grace of God; that no root of bitterness springing up causes trouble, and by it many be defiled;
1. PRO 6:34 – jealousy produces anger in a person.
2. An angry, quick-tempered person acts foolishly –
PRO 14:17 A quick-tempered man acts foolishly, and a man of evil devices is hated.
An angry person and one who plans evil are both alike.
3. A person who is slow to anger is said to have great understanding,
PRO 14:29.
4. PRO 15:1 – anger can be stirred up through the sins of the tongue.
5. An angry person stirs up strife and dissensions, PRO 15:18.
6. Anger is the reason why people try to dig up or invent evil about others, PRO 16:27.
Karah = to devise evil for the purpose of destroying someone.
PSA 119:85 The arrogant have dug pits for me, men who are not in accord with your doctrine.
7. A person who is slow to anger is better than the mighty in life,
PRO 16:32.
8. Wisdom makes a person slow to anger and overlook faults in others, PRO 19:11.
9. Anger brings on punishment to self, and therefore it is a form of self-induced misery,
PRO 19:19.
10. Anger causes misery to those in your periphery, PRO 21:9,19.
Taylor translation –
“It is better to live in the corner of an attic than with a crabby woman in a lovely home.”
PRO 21:19 “It is better to live in a desert land, than with a contentious [bitter tongued] and vexing [or angry] woman.”
11. Those who ridicule and criticize are controlled by anger,
PRO 22:10.
12. We are told to separate from angry people, PRO 22:24.
13. An angry person is said to be a whisperer, contentious, have burning lips and a wicked heart, filled with hate, flattery, deceit, lies, and a flattering mouth, PRO 26:20-28.
14. Anger motivates jealousy and cruelty,
PRO 27:4.
15. It is impossible to restrain an angry person, PRO 27:15-16.
16. Anger is the result of losing your temper because of lacking wisdom, PRO 29:11.
17. Anger is never an isolated sin, PRO 29:22.